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Chuck Ross

Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.

PBS Launching Conservative Talk Show

PBS is launching a new political talk show with a conservative focus, which will begin airing April 13. The AP reports that the broadcaster will decide after an eight-week run whether to keep the new show, “In Principle,” on the…

Katie Couric Explains Why She Left Yahoo

Katie Couric had a lot to say about Yahoo, and about tech companies vs. media companies, on an episode of Kara Swisher’s Recode Decode that crossed over with Couric’s podcast. Recode quotes Couric saying: “I would say to the Yahoo…

Filmmaker Bounces Back With New TV Series

No sooner was his first TV series canceled than news surfaced that the second series from M. Night Shyamalan has been given the green light. On the heels of Fox’s official cancellation of Shyamalan’s supernatural drama series “Wayward Pines,” Variety…

Rethinking Some Past Oscar-Winning Best Pictures — and the Movies That Should Have Won

With the Oscars coming up this weekend, one report looks back on 10 past Best Picture winners going back to 1942 to rethink the awards and try to pick a better winner. Starting with an obvious one, the report by…

Government OKs Discovery-Scripps Merger

Discovery Communications’ acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive has been given a green light by the U.S. Department of Justice and is expected to close March 6, MediaPost reports. Discovery released a statement saying the DOJ had concluded its investigation into…

NBCUniversal Reimagines the Commercial Experience

Press release from NBCUniversal, Feb. 28, 2018: NBCUniversal today announced its plan to decrease the number of advertisements in commercial pods by 20 percent and decrease advertising time by 10 percent across its networks during its original primetime programming. The…

ABC and E! Standing With Ryan Seacrest Amid Allegations

As Ryan Seacrest’s former stylist for “E! News” provides detailed allegations of sexual harassment by the TV personality, Variety reports that ABC and E! are standing by Seacrest. Seacrest has been at work on “Live with Kelly & Ryan,” the…

Fox Responds to ‘Possible Offer’ by Comcast for Sky

After news broke Sunday that Comcast Corp. had made an unsolicited $31 billion bid for European pay TV giant Sky — apparently topping 21st Century Fox’s bid by 16% — Fox issued a brief statement Tuesday. The statement says in…

Alec Baldwin to Host Talk Show

Alec Baldwin has a new talk show on one of the major broadcast networks. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that ABC will air the pilot episode of “Sundays with Alec Baldwin” leading out from this Sunday’s Oscars telecast. The…

Prime-Time Olympics Coverage Dips 7% Overall From Sochi, 17% on NBC

NBC ended the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang with an average of a little less than 20 million viewers in prime time across the network, the NBCSN cable channel and live streaming, down about 7% from the Sochi Winter Games in…